By Alabama Public Radio
Birmingham AL – A federal judge in Birmingham has slowed the release of water from reserviors in Georgia in order to maintain high enough water levels on the Chatahoochee River at Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan. The water was being released in order to meet protection standards for endangered mussels downstream in Apalachicola, Florida. Also, water officials from Alabama, Georgia and Florida have announced they are working out details about how to share water from the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin ... an issue on which the states have been unable to compromise since 1990. Georgia officials say their state is in a drought and can't afford to send additional water downstream.